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Sansom Row is a row of historic houses located at 3402 to 3436 Sansom Street in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. History and architectural features [ edit ]
Street signage. Alterations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries changed most of the row – only 700, 730 and 732 Sansom retained their original experience. 710 Sansom, built in 1870, is a three-story commercial building with stone lintels.
As with "Broad Street" in various other towns and cities, the street was named for its breadth and laid out and developed as a central thoroughfare. Cecil B. Moore Avenue Named in honor of the late Philadelphia civil rights attorney Cecil B. Moore , who led the fight to integrate Girard College and was the president of the local NAACP and a ...
Mary Brown Warburton, then president of the EAP, hired New York architect Arthur Loomis Harmon to design a multi-story hotel building in the heart of Philadelphia's growing downtown. The site of the hotel was selected on the northeast comer of South 20th and Sansom Streets where several earlier nineteenth century rowhouses were recently demolished.
Around 12:40 a.m., their phones moved towards Lower Merion, the area of the home invasion and homicide, where they stayed until 2:45 a.m., then both phones started traveling back to Sansom Street ...
36th Street station (soon to be known as 36th–Sansom station [2]) is a SEPTA trolley station in Philadelphia. [3] It is located at the intersection of Sansom and 36th Streets, and serves Routes 11, 13, 34, and 36 of the SEPTA subway–surface trolley lines.
Roughly bounded by Chestnut, 15th, Walnut, Sansom, and 21st Streets; also roughly bounded by the Center City West Historic District, S. 15th, Locust St., and S. Sydenham St. 39°56′45″N 75°10′20″W / 39.9458°N 75.1722°W / 39.9458; -75.1722 ( Center City West Commercial Historic
A significant, later row house grouping, called Carstairs Row, was built in Philadelphia in 1800-01. William Sansom had bought a block of land between Seventh and Eighth Streets between Walnut Street and Sansom Street. Along Walnut Street Sansom built Union Row and along Sansom Street Thomas Carstairs built Carstairs Row.